Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fostered Communism and that they disputed the mastery of Japan with the army. When others laid an indiscreetly heavy hand upon the princes of money, Itagaki soothed the offended financiers without in the least surrendering the army's supremacy. And, all the while, Itagaki and Nishio managed to extend their grips upon the sources and tendrils of army power. Today the Premier, General Hideki Tojo, is commonly supposed to be their...
...final effort to drive the Chinese from coastal Fukien Province. With Fukien would go the best remaining bases in China for air attack on Japan. The Japanese also stabbed at interior Hunan with a double aim: to take an area valuable to Chiang Kai-shek's armies, to extend Jap control of eastern China's railways...
...national question. It is not a local question; it is not a question affecting New Jersey alone, but it is a question affecting the entire United States. The question involved is whether the Hague machine, which is one of the most disreputable, demagogic political machines that ever existed, shall extend its power beyond New Jersey and take in the Federal Government...
...greatest single event in termite history was the invention of central heating. Better-heated houses now permit these sensitive insects to extend their activities for the first time into regions where temperatures under 50° would otherwise kill them. In general, human civilization has been a blessing to termites. In large areas of the South and West, termites have built themselves into the underpinning of the American home...
...effect of this class of suppression is to extend censorship from its proper military to its improper political sphere, to make it possible for the Government to make important political agreements behind the backs of the public (as in the recent visit of Molotov), to put an end to the ideal of open covenants openly arrived...